Questions Writers Get Asked: Why Do You Write? What Keeps You Going?
Why, indeed? Writing, after all, makes for a highly uncertain life, not to mention the very long time frames between milestones, as I mentioned yesterday…
Howeverz, I suspect the kernel of the matter is that “I write because I have to!” The stories keep waking me up at night until I give in and write them!
In terms of what keeps me going, I just can’t imagine stopping. But reading stories I love makes me happy, and so I’d like to think that by writing stories I love and getting them out there for others to read (I know, I know, I’m hearing you re Daughter Of Blood–so “out there eventually“, OK!), I may be adding just a little to the world’s net happiness.
And how’s that for channeling Pollyanna? 😉